Anna Maria Mori, born in Pola, exiled in Florence, and established herself as a nationally renowned journalist in Rome, turned 90 on April 12. Her journalistic career began with the weekly Annabella, continued with The messenger of Rome and participated in the birth of the Republic, but he also worked on radio and television, in particular with the documentaries made for RAI “Istria 1943-1993: fifty years of solitude” and “Istria, the right to memory” in 1997. These were precious contributions in the 1999s when the history of the eastern Italian border was beginning to appear on the national stage: the first edition of Bora. Istria, the wind of exile, co-written with Nelida Milani, a leading representative of the literature and culture of the indigenous Italian community in Istria. Explore It brought to the attention of the general public an exchange of letters between an exile and a “remainer”, also contributing to the ongoing debate on the mutual relations between Italians of the exodus and of the eastern Adriatic.

In 2006 with Born in Istria Mori wanted to celebrate her 70th birthday by taking an autobiographical journey into her childhood memories and also by telling the story, culture, gastronomy and traditions of her native land, while she reaches the milestone of 90 by sending it to print Disorder. An (almost) sentimental primer. for Harper Collins Italia.

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What happens when chronological order gives way to the more urgent and true rhythm of memory? When memories don't line up in a row, but emerge through associations, gaps, sudden insights?

In her "(almost) sentimental primer," Anna Maria Mori entrusts the irregularity of lived experience to the alphabet, making each letter the threshold of a locked room. What emerges is a mosaic in which personal history intertwines with collective history: memories of war and peace, reflections on love, motherhood, old age, private mythologies, and small everyday wonders.

Alongside the great names of culture, cinema, and entertainment, anonymous and unforgettable figures appear: a woman who silently loves an unattainable pianist, a dog who dies of fright during an air raid, an actress trapped in a body she no longer recognizes, deformed by injections imposed to resemble herself twenty years earlier.

Each text is a poignant and very short fragment, which opens and closes like a song, and can be leafed through like a diary, while you laugh, you cry, you always recognize yourself.

One of the most authoritative journalists in our country, a key figure in the foundation of RepublicAnna Maria Mori signs an atypical and powerful memoir: an emotional map, chaotic and luminous, where order is only apparent and the true rhythm is the disordered one of intuition, tenderness, irony.